Author Biography
Penelope Fitzgerald was born in December 1916. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford and she worked for the BBC during World War II. She started writing at the age of 60 and was the author of nine novels, three of which - The Bookshop in 1978, The Beginning of Spring in 1988 and The Gate of Angels in1990 - were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the prize in 1979 for Offshore. Penelope Fitzgerald died in April 2000 aged 83.
Synopsis
Offshore is set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with the tide of the Thames on Battersea Reach. Living between land and water, they feel as if they belong to neither…Maurice, a male prostitute, is the sympathetic friend to whom all the others turn. Nenna loves her husband but can’t get him back; her children run wild on the muddy foreshore. She feels drawn to Richard, the ex-RNVR city man whose converted minesweeper dominates the Reach. Is he sexually attractive because he can fold maps the right way? With this and other questions waiting to be answered, Offshore offers a delightful glimpse of the workings of an eccentric community
为什么读佩内洛普•菲兹杰拉德 文/止 庵 英国作家佩内洛普•菲兹杰拉德大器晚成,晚到目前所见文学史著作还来不及提起她,晚到我们刚刚知道她,虽然她在英国文学中自具地位,而且卓尔不群;——对于我们普通读者,末一点特别重要。即以英国女作家而论,读过了奥斯丁、勃朗...
评分 评分"AMERICAN readers have shown their affection for British miniaturists by taking to their hearts Barbara Pym and Anita Brookner. Perhaps they will approve as well of ''Offshore,'' Penelope Fitzgerald's very small in every way comedy of manners. The third of ...
评分"AMERICAN readers have shown their affection for British miniaturists by taking to their hearts Barbara Pym and Anita Brookner. Perhaps they will approve as well of ''Offshore,'' Penelope Fitzgerald's very small in every way comedy of manners. The third of ...
评分从豆瓣上看到这本《离岸》的介绍,突然很想读一读。很久都不读小说了。 一部分在河流上生活的人们带着他们的喜怒哀乐,来到我们的身边。每个人都个性鲜明,每个人都有自己的烦恼和自豪。他们摇摆的船上,不属于城市,但也不属于河流,只漂不流……他们或曾有过美丽的爱情和...
离岸,布克奖。
评分离岸,布克奖。
评分(1979) R4
评分离岸,布克奖。
评分离岸,布克奖。
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